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Perfect Soul · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
15 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEAACAKO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect Soul on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-34, hi-hat through bars 35-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-61, 63-65 and 67-69, and 1 more place -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59               60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xx-------x----xx|--x------x----x-|
Perfect Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-51 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Perfect Soul?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Perfect Soul hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Perfect Soul?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED